19K views · 248 reactions | The B.C. wildfire situation is not slowing down and it's a race to protect homes in the Interior. An evacuation order southeast of Ashcroft has been triggered by the Tremont Creek blaze. And smoke from the B.C. wildfires is drifting into Alberta leading to hazy skies. For more on B.C.'s wildfires: https://globalnews.ca/tag/bc-wildfire/ | Global BC | Facebook

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The 2023 wildfire season has been long and challenging. Between April 1 and October 31, 2,245 wildfires burned more than 2.84 million hectares of forest and land resulting in the most destructive wildfire season in British Columbia’s recorded history. “We started really early, snow melted three to four weeks early, we were experiencing very aggressive fire behaviour in early May and that has persisted right into the month of October,” Neal McLoughlin, Superintendent, BCWS Predictive Services. It